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Business Express

Even small-business work trips rack up points on a company's carbon footprint. Every flight, every train, every rented car counts.
Many consumers, especially millennials, expect businesses to not only provide high-quality goods and services, but for those business owners to also do good and care for the quality of the communities in which they work.

Forbes

For small-business owners in the U.S., April brings with it a certain degree of extra anxiety and stress. The shifting tax landscape — from deductions to ever-changing rules — is seldom at rest and the chances to miss opportunities are many. Zogby Analytics recently polled 400 U.S.-based accountants and found the [...]

The Motley Fool

blog.hirevue.com

When we talk about sales we often start the conversation in some fairly familiar ways — we discuss lead generation, we move along to mid-funnel cultivation, and all this usually ends up as a discussion about sales conversion strategies and success rates.

Business Express

Here's something many small-business experts already understand: If your small business is growing, your website has to grow along with it.
Letting one trail behind the other is tantamount to leaving money on the table. Yet many small-business owners don't understand the importance of their online initiative.

Eaton

Got mobile-security sieves within your workforce? Mobile devices are ubiquitous among every business, every staff, in almost every situation. That can mean a happier, more connected company of employees, but it also means a nexus o...

skift.com

Mashable

Real estate has traditionally been a game won or lost based on old-fashioned networking and shoe-leather style hard work — deeply dependent on timing, detecting trends and more than a little bit of luck.

It may not be that way for much longer, however. Big data is changing the way real-estate professionals, buyers, sellers — and even banks — think about transactions involving property.

Mozy

... we heard a lot from politicians about closed monuments and parks, and about the outrage prompted when those resources weren’t available. But what really happened on the ground? What about the business owners that felt the shutdown’s impact?